So the one who had been the most miserable of us in love passed the night the happiest of all once he had attained his desire.
357 – al-Mahāmilī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn *
Shaykh Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḍabbī, known as al-Mahāmilī.
He heard hadith from al-Najjād, Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād, Daʿlaj, and a number of others.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn, Abū Ghālib al-Bāqillānī, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb said (2): “His audition is sound. He became hard of hearing in the year 408 AH, and he died in 429 AH, in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, at the age of eighty-six.”
358 – Ibn al-Ḥārith, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī **
The imam, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith al-Tamīmī, al-Iṣbahānī—the Qurʾān reciter, grammarian, ascetic, and hadith scholar who settled in Naysābūr.
He narrated from Abū Shaykh ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Qabbāb, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraqūṭnī, and others.